Scenic Rim group offers support against CSG project

A Scenic Rim group says it will help counterparts in New South Wales stop a coal seam gas (CSG) development.

Metgasco will restart drilling at an exploration well near Casino after putting the project on hold for six months.

The company plans to pipe the gas through the Scenic Rim for export.

Innes Larkin from Keep the Scenic Rim Scenic says by stopping the exploratory drilling, it will stop the need for a pipeline being built.

"Our job will be to keep informing our local community and then support any communities that are in the Northern Rivers that are aiming to stop unconventional gas exploration and development," he said.

"We're going to stand firm. We're committed to making sure that there is no coal seam gas or unconventional gas or even mining of any sort in the Scenic Rim, it's too precious an area.

"It holds too much biodiversity, too much of Queensland's world heritage national park to even think about letting this sort of inappropriate development in."